discord-bots

[loud junco]

u know any?

[slate swan]

hm there's railway.app that can host a pgsql mysql or mongodb server for you

[loud junco]

any tutorial?

[slate swan]

you wanna learn how to use a database
or you already do and want to host one

https://sqlbolt.com you can use this to learn sql

[loud junco]

i already know how i just need to host

[slate swan]

and then use any you want to

[slate swan]

well then just go to https://railway.app you'll understand everything yourself while you;re at it

[loud junco]

aight thanksss

[slate swan]

My extension fails to load, and I don't get any errors. Any ideas why?

How do i make a changing status loop?

[placid skiff]

cogs extension?

do you have any error handler? @event async def on_error

[placid skiff]

!d discord.ext.tasks.loop

[unkempt canyon]

discord.ext.tasks.loop

@discord.ext.tasks.loop(*, seconds=..., minutes=..., hours=..., time=..., count=None, reconnect=True)```
A decorator that schedules a task in the background for you with optional reconnect logic. The decorator returns a [`Loop`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ext/tasks/index.html#discord.ext.tasks.Loop "discord.ext.tasks.Loop").

[slate swan]

Tyyy

[slate swan]

Nope, I don't think so.

ie = []
for i in os.listdir("./cogs"):
    if i.endswith(".py"):
        ie.append("cogs." + i[:-3])
        
if __name__ == '__main__':
    for ex in ie:
        bot.load_extension(ex)

    bot.loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
    bot.loop.run_until_complete(_startbot(bot))
    a = '\n'.join(i for i in bot.extensions)
    print(f"Loaded Extensions:\nNote that there should be:\n- modmail\nList:\n {a}")

Then in the terminal:

Loaded Extensions:
Note that there should be:
- modmail
List:
 


-------------------------------
You are logged in as Testing#3233!

And the default help message only says this: Nothing about the modmail cog.```
No Category:
help Shows this message

Type >help command for more info on a command.
You can also type >help category for more info on a category.

[naive briar]

What the

[placid skiff]

first of all check if the ie list contains something, maybe it doesn't find the directory
then add your extensions with this code, it will help with errors:

for cog in cogs: #cogs is the list where extensions are stored
  try:
     print(f"loadin {cog}")
     bot.load_extension(f"path/to/cogs/{cog}")
  except discord.ext.commands.NoEntryPointError as e:
      print(f"Ignoring exception in loading cog: {cog}\nNo setup found", file=sys.stderr)
      traceback.print_exception(type(e), e, e.__traceback__, file=sys.stderr)
  except discord.ext.commands.ExtensionFailed as e:
      print(f"Ignoring exception in loading cog: {cog}\nThe extension or its setup had an execution error", file=sys.stderr)
      traceback.print_exception(type(e), e, e.__traceback__, file=sys.stderr)
   else:
      print(f"{cog} loaded")

remember to import sys and traceback

[upbeat gust]

Or just let default logging handle it

why make all this unnecessary code

[upbeat gust]

Your cog/extension loading is outdated

https://gist.github.com/Rapptz/6706e1c8f23ac27c98cee4dd985c8120

[placid skiff]

just because usually you will put an error handler somewhere at some point

[slate swan]

It worked an hour ago tho

[upbeat gust]

probably bc you updated dpy

[placid skiff]

and that is nicer than the default logging

[upbeat gust]

How so?

Your extension loading is also outdated btw

[placid skiff]

well nope, not for disnake

[slate swan]

I haven't updated anything, it worked, I changed some code in another file, I restarted the bot, and it didn't work.

[upbeat gust]

ah

[slate swan]

I'm using py-cord too

Found the problem

It didn't give me an error, but when I printed the result it contained the error. 🤷‍♂️

[placid skiff]

lol

[placid skiff]

that's why this is handful

[slate swan]

            a = bot.load_extension(f'cogs.{filename[:-3]}')
            print(a)
```Gave this in console```
{'cogs.modmail': ExtensionFailed("Extension 'cogs.modmail' raised an error: SyntaxError: positional argument follows keyword argument (modmail.py, line 46)")}

Another one, what does this means?```py
{'cogs.modmail': ExtensionFailed("Extension 'cogs.modmail' raised an error: SyntaxError: EOL while scanning string literal (functions.py, line 16)")}

[placid skiff]

The errors are in your modmail file, line 46 and functions file, line 16

[slate swan]

But if I have an error in the functions file, why doesn't the modmail file load? The error didn't show up in console at first, and the bot still starts.

[placid skiff]

loading cogs doesn't stop the bot from starting, it will just run without the extension

and it can be because your modmail use some methods of the functions file

[slate swan]

Ah

Alright! Thanks!

[serene lynx]

bro, what is the order system for the voice channel?

join to create position is 69 and 384 position is 72

[lofty lance]

        for i in range(len[feilds]):
            a = feilds[zer]
            a.split(':')
            ke = a[0]
            val = a[1]
            embed.add_field(name=ke, value=val)
            zer = zer + 1

in this i am trying to get data from a dict and send it in feilds of embed

dict = {em_feilds{key 1:" hi this is key 1 ",key 2:" hi this is key 2"}}

this is what i am trying to send but it shows me error :

discord.ext.commands.errors.CommandInvokeError: Command raised an exception: TypeError: 'builtin_function_or_method' object is not subscriptable

this is the error i am getting

[primal token]

!e

print[0]

[unkempt canyon]

@primal token :x: Your 3.11 eval job has completed with return code 1.

001 | Traceback (most recent call last):
002 |   File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
003 | TypeError: 'builtin_function_or_method' object is not subscriptable

[primal token]

I also recommend checking out the example in https://docs.python.org/3/glossary.html#term-Pythonic

[slate swan]

How can I send all errors to a text channel? Using on_command_error I only get the errors in commands, not the ones like missing permissions and events stuff.

how to make my bot send embed messages?

[lofty lance]

i am working on that only

[slate swan]

so yk how to do it?

[lofty lance]

little bit

still learing

[slate swan]

can you tell me the basics please?

[lofty lance]

its easy if u know how to make bots

i learnd it from api

[slate swan]

the docs?

I will check it out then

[upbeat gust]

how much do you have already?

starting from scratch or a working bot

[lofty lance]

https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html?highlight=embed#discord.Embed

this can help i guss

[slate swan]

starting from scratch

but I am not new to python overall

[upbeat gust]

Take a look at the basic example first https://github.com/Rapptz/discord.py/blob/master/examples/basic_bot.py

[slate swan]

ty peeps

[upbeat gust]

If sending messages is all you want to do

Check out webhooks

[slate swan]

ik those

I used them before

I want embed messages to make my bot seem more clean

why is it sending it twice

[upbeat gust]

?tag twice

[novel apex]

This is not a Modmail thread.

[upbeat gust]

ah this isnt dpy

[unkempt canyon]

Pasting large amounts of code

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[slate swan]

@bot.event
async def on_command_error(ctx, error):
  if isinstance(error, commands.CommandNotFound):
    await ctx.reply("❌ We dont have that command ! Try using !help")
  else:
       raise error```

[upbeat gust]

?

[slate swan]

thats the code

how is that wrong

[upbeat gust]

Did you read what I sent?

[slate swan]

i did not understand

[upbeat gust]

Didn't understand what

[slate swan]

that

Help bro

@upbeat gust

[upbeat gust]

With what

I can't read your mind

[slate swan]

embed = discord.Embed(colour= discord.colour(to_rgb(r, g, b)), title= "!")

It dont work

to_rgb

[upbeat gust]

How does it not work

[upbeat gust]

^

[slate swan]

what..

[upbeat gust]

Why are you using to_rgb

You should be using the from_rgb class method of discord.Colour

[slate swan]

@upbeat gust

[upbeat gust]

.

[slate swan]

Why only to_rgb?

[slate swan]

Ok

@upbeat gust

[upbeat gust]

from_rgb is a classmethod of discord.Colour

I strongly recommend you familiarise yourself with oop

[slate swan]

ITS GETTING WORST WHAT

[upbeat gust]

so, do you have multiple instances of the bot running?

[slate swan]

No

[upbeat gust]

How do you know?

[slate swan]

also i have that command

[slate swan]

bc i turned my hosting off

what is going on

do i need to update my vscode?

[upbeat gust]

Vscode??

[upbeat gust]

What is your hosting

[slate swan]

visual studio code

[slate swan]

hostlocal.co.il

[tired pine]

say_msg: str = None??

[naive briar]

That's the default value

[tired pine]

also idk what nextcord is lol

I know discord.Embed

Idk wth is nextcord.Embed

[naive briar]

nextcord is a fork of discord.py

[tired pine]

also if you want parameters just use bot.tree.commands for slash commands

it's easier and looks cooler

[slate swan]

im using nextcord

[upbeat gust]

Uh huh looks very trustworthy and good

[tired pine]

if you need further help with discord.py join gg/dpy

[slate swan]

i know them

like they have a lot of customers

ill try to open a ticket

maybe they could help

[tired pine]

all I want to say is that if you made /say a slash command it would be easier since you only have one parameter and looks better

[upbeat gust]

Their website doesn't even exist yet

[tired pine]

my bot has a /say command

and it works perfectly

[slate swan]

yes ik

[slate swan]

so do mine

but the hosting

idk maybe its bc of them

[tired pine]

oh

you use vs code right?

[slate swan]

yes

[upbeat gust]

That's an editor-

[tired pine]

then it will show an error message in the terminal if it's because of them

[upbeat gust]

???

your editor has nothing to do with the hosting

There wouldn't even be an error in the case

[tired pine]

If the bot is not online and you use a slash command it will show an error

[naive briar]

Guh!?

[upbeat gust]

Cool?

Who asked though

That's completely irrelevant

[slate swan]

ok its a problem w my code

i reset the token

so these are my packages

import nextcord
from nextcord.ext import commands, tasks
from nextcord import Interaction
from nextcord import File
import asyncio
from nextcord.ext.commands import cooldown, BucketType
from nextcord.ui import Select
import datetime
import random
from datetime import datetime, timedelta
from nextcord.abc import GuildChannel
from nextcord import slash_command
import humanfriendly
import calendar
from random import randint
import os

maybe some of them got updates?

[upbeat gust]

Yeah no

99% sure it's your hosting

[slate swan]

like w the packages

[slate swan]

i restarted my token

so theres no way

[upbeat gust]

Ok then

I can't help with nextcord

[vocal plover]

@slate swan have you loaded the extension/cog that command is in? That's the only reason it wouldn't be being registered

[slate swan]

yes

def setup(bot):
bot.add_cog(commands(bot))

[vocal plover]

and you're running bot.load_extension("your_ext_name") in the main bot file?

[slate swan]

for fn in os.listdir("./cogs"):
if fn.endswith(".py"):
bot.load_extension(f"cogs.{fn[:-3]}")

[vocal plover]

Hmm, not sure then, probably worth joining the nextcord server for help on it, there's a help channel system there with lib-specific knowledge

[slate swan]

yes theyre trying to help

its so weird

should i do that

i did

and still doesnt work

[spring summit]

??

[slate swan]

wtf is wrong w my bot

i deleted a command and it still sending it

[spring summit]

you're probably running the code multiple times

[slate swan]

im not

[spring summit]

reset your token and retry, that might help

[spring summit]

send me the code

[slate swan]

i already did

ill try again

[spring summit]

hmmm, are you hosting the bot?

[slate swan]

yes but i closed it also changed tge token again

now its sending twice

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\PC\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python39\site-packages\nextcord\client.py", line 502, in _run_event
    await coro(*args, **kwargs)
  File "c:\Users\PC\Desktop\Noas Bot\main.py", line 155, in on_command_error
    raise error
nextcord.ext.commands.errors.CommandNotFound: Command "sadfhgsay" is not found
Ignoring exception in on_command_error
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\PC\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python39\site-packages\nextcord\client.py", line 502, in _run_event
    await coro(*args, **kwargs)
  File "c:\Users\PC\Desktop\Noas Bot\main.py", line 155, in on_command_error
    raise error
nextcord.ext.commands.errors.CommandNotFound: Command "sadfhgsay" is not found```

in the terminal and in the server

[spring summit]

may i see the code?

[slate swan]

yes

!paste

[unkempt canyon]

Pasting large amounts of code

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After pasting your code, save it by clicking the floppy disk icon in the top right, or by typing ctrl + S. After doing that, the URL should change. Copy the URL and post it here so others can see it.

[slate swan]

https://paste.pythondiscord.com/viyoseqofu

[spring summit]

oh god

[slate swan]

what

[spring summit]

what command is causing the problem?

[slate swan]

everything

everycommand that it isnt slash command

[hushed galleon]

do you have any on_message events/listeners in other files?

[slate swan]

yes!

a lot

[hushed galleon]

and what about on_command_error, just that one in your main script?

[slate swan]

oh i dont have it

i deleted it

[hushed galleon]

ah ok, so no others

[slate swan]

no others

[hushed galleon]

then its possible one of your on_message listeners is processing the commands twice

[slate swan]

oh wait i do

@bot.event
async def on_command_error(ctx, error):
if isinstance(error, commands.CommandOnCooldown):
embed = "You have cooldown ! Please use this command again in {:.2f}s".format(error.retry_after)
await ctx.send(embed)
else:
raise error

[hushed galleon]

ah i thought you meant you had deleted that one

well either way 0 or 1 on_command_error is fine

[slate swan]

oh okay

[slate swan]

should i send them?

[hushed galleon]

does any of your listeners have a await bot.process_commands(message)?

[slate swan]

https://paste.pythondiscord.com/cevereyixi

[slate swan]

ill check

No

[hushed galleon]

wait, so this was the on_command_error you had deleted?

[slate swan]

yes

[hushed galleon]

if its not the same as the one shown in the file you pasted, then you had 2 on_command_errors

[slate swan]

like i had two

one for cooldown and one for unknown commands

[hushed galleon]

...but then, this traceback shows 2 from the same handler

[slate swan]

thats weird

[hushed galleon]

agh its all conflicting

your previous screenshots would suggest two on_command_errors could have raised the same error, but the tracebacks would suggest your bot processed the same message twice

[slate swan]

how is that possible

how can i fix it now

[hushed galleon]

just to make sure, did you ctrl+f the phrase "process_commands"?

[slate swan]

no

[hushed galleon]

oh and what happens if you use a command like normal

[slate swan]

i did on_command_errors

[hushed galleon]

does the bot respond twice or just once

[slate swan]

but yeah w ctrl f

ill try

[hushed galleon]

ok that would definitely suggest the command was invoked twice

[slate swan]

i dont understand how

[hushed galleon]

any use of the word invoke in your code?

[slate swan]

No

[hushed galleon]

usually the library itself should never be processing a message twice, leaving the other cause to your code

[slate swan]

should i remove and install visual studio code again?

[hushed galleon]

to rule out nextcord, what happens if you create another script with commands.Bot and just one command? e.g. py bot = commands.Bot(...) @bot.command() async def test(ctx): await ctx.send('hello world!') bot.run(...)

[slate swan]

great idea tbh

i will try

[hushed galleon]

perhaps try changing the command_prefix as well, first with the same prefix and then something different

actually just seeing the bot respond to !test with a "command not found" for same prefix would mean there's a second instance of your bot

[slate swan]

that works

[spring summit]

does anyone know why this shit blocks every command

[hushed galleon]

without changing your prefix, does !test happen to do anything or nothing?

[slate swan]

ill try

[slate swan]

no

no error

[hushed galleon]

so,

• no second instance, and
• working test script, and
• nextcord not broken

then its likely an issue with your first bot

[slate swan]

not w the cogs right?

[hushed galleon]

it might be

[slate swan]

ill check on the bot thank you!

[hushed galleon]

do you happen to have the source code hosted on github?

[slate swan]

No

[hushed galleon]

by command, are you referring to @client.command()? if so, your on_message event needs to process commands in order for them to work
https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/faq.html#why-does-on-message-make-my-commands-stop-working

[spring summit]

like this?

[hushed galleon]

oh you do have a process_commands in your on_message listener

[slate swan]

i did on_message as an event

like in cogs its @commands.Cog.listener()

[hushed galleon]

outside the if-statement, because the line should run for every message sent

[slate swan]

await self.bot.process_commands(msg)

[hushed galleon]

yeah thats exactly the issue

listeners dont have to do process_commands

[slate swan]

    @commands.Cog.listener()
    async def on_message(self, msg):
        Channel = self.bot.get_channel(996119147337494538)
        if msg.author.bot:
            return
        embed = nextcord.Embed(title=f"New feedback!", description=f"__**User:**__ \n {msg.author.mention} \n \n __**Feedback:**__ \n{msg.content}", timestamp=datetime.now() , color=0x4e80cf)
        embed.set_thumbnail(url=msg.author.display_avatar.url)
        embed.set_footer(text=f"Requested by {msg.author} | {msg.author.guild.name}")
        await self.bot.process_commands(msg)
        if msg.channel is not Channel:
            return
        moji=await Channel.send(embed=embed)
        await moji.add_reaction(':Fishy:')```

[spring summit]

omg it works i love you so much sadnkasjndkasjdaskd

[cerulean folio]

Hi guys, does bot.fetch_user() has problems with some ids?

[hushed galleon]

i dont see any @bot.event in your first link so i would assume you havent overridden it, meaning commands.Bot will call process_commands by itself

[slate swan]

yes oops

like

i did, idk why i said bot.event

[slate swan]

all valid ids should work as long as they share a guild with the bot

@commands.Cog.listener()

[slate swan]

so do i remove it

[hushed galleon]

mhm

[slate swan]

i removed ill check now

holding fingers

[hushed galleon]

iirc you dont even have to share a guild, any user ID can be fetched

[slate swan]

WORKS

U R A MAGICIAN

THANK YOU SO MUCH OMG

[slate swan]

ah yes, user's aint connected to guilds so that makes sense

🚶i almost never tried fetching a user

why do I keep getting restricted by cloud flare when my bot is sending messages to channels?

too many requests?

[hushed galleon]

too many requests from the same replit datacenter, its a common occurrence for bots hosting there

[slate swan]

oh 😦

i dont have any other way to host

[hushed galleon]

ive heard you can write kill 1 in the shell as a temporary workaround, but replit's not exactly a good host for discord bots

[slate swan]

i have 8 times

idk replit use to be reliable

[devout phoenix]

can I handle events synchronously?

[slate swan]

now its not

[hushed galleon]

perhaps thats when there were less bots being hosted there, but now everyone's trying to get free hosting

[slate swan]

yea there probaly gonna make it paid

😭

[hushed galleon]

i thought they already did with their hacker plan, whatever it was

[slate swan]

yh but you can host with uptimerobot for free

and they prob dont want that

[hushed galleon]

sync vs async depends on the libraries you're using

[devout phoenix]

I'm using discord.py and pyqt, having issues because the discord lib is async

[hushed galleon]

i believe you'd want to look into asyncio's bridge functions (wrong term?) for interoperability then

[spring needle]

Why it says local variable defined in enclosing scope on line xx referenced before assignment

I declared a variable outside the async def and try to use it inside an async def

More specifically, an int variable = 0 and I try to make it + 10 everytime the bot.command is run

[hushed galleon]

https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio-api-index.html
e.g. asyncio.run_coroutine_threadsafe(), and also stuff like queues that are compatible with threading

[devout phoenix]

I tried asyncio already, but I'm getting these errors

ValueError: a coroutine was expected, got <async_generator object Messageable.history at 0x7f33981df6c0>```

the code's just py print(asyncio.run(channel.history(limit=50)))

[hushed galleon]

asyncio.run isnt what you'd use for that

that has to create an entirely new event loop to run coroutines

[devout phoenix]

sure, but that's still a weird error in that case

[hushed galleon]

eh it makes sense

anyway you'd want a thread running the event loop for discord.py, separated from your main thread

[devout phoenix]

yeah but I'd have it on another thread again, would I not?

[hushed galleon]

and then use asyncio.run_coroutine_threadsafe(coro, loop) in your pyqt thread to execute async coroutines

the history() generator is a bit more complex though, you'd have to make a new async function just to flatten it into a list of messages

[devout phoenix]

TypeError: A coroutine object is required```

[slate swan]

history returns an async_iterator not a coro

[devout phoenix]

so the issue is that it's a generator?

I'll try with a regular one, hold on

[hushed galleon]

e.g. ```py
async def flatten(gen):
return [x async for x in gen]

in your pyqt thread:

future = asyncio.run_coroutine_threadsafe(
flatten(channel.history(...)),
loop
)
messages = future.result()```

[devout phoenix]

and I can use a callback instead of blocking, right?

[hushed galleon]

pyqt has their own threading stuff i believe

[devout phoenix]

why does discord.py even use coroutines

[hushed galleon]

the whole library is designed with async/await

[devout phoenix]

anyways future.result() seems to block indefinitely

[slate swan]

anyone got a good free host for discord bots replit stinks (used to be gud)

[hushed galleon]

asyncio's a way to do concurrency in just one thread, quite performant for I/O-bound work

[hushed galleon]

if you can run your stuff in another thread, you can just block normally and you wont have to get into callback hell
https://realpython.com/python-pyqt-qthread/

[devout phoenix]

I'm really confused why this couldn't all run on a single thread

[spring needle]

How can I get how long until a member is unmuted

What I mean unmuted is the member has been timeout

[hushed galleon]

asyncio's event loop requires an entire thread, and so does pyqt in order to run its event loop

[slate swan]

!d discord.Member.timed_out_until

[unkempt canyon]

discord.Member.timed\_out\_until

An aware datetime object that specifies the date and time in UTC that the member’s time out will expire. This will be set to None if the user is not timed out.

New in version 2.0.

[spring needle]

Ty

[devout phoenix]

https://github.com/CabbageDevelopment/qasync
I found this, but it doesn't seem maintained

[spring needle]

It says member object has no attribute time_out_until…

[naive briar]

timed_out_until

[spring needle]

Dam

Also another question, what if I just want to know how many seconds left until unmute

If I timeout 10 secs, after 5 secs there’s 5 secs left before unmute, and I want to let the bot know it’s 5 seconds left

[naive briar]

Use Discord's timestamp format

<t:1667921592:R>

[spring needle]

Let me search

[nova mauve]

Quick question, say I want to dm a user they’ve been muted, what if I wanted to delete that message after a certain amount of time, how would I go about that?

[sick birch]

!d discord.Messageable.send

!d discord.Member.send

[unkempt canyon]

discord.Member.send

await send(content=None, *, tts=False, embed=None, embeds=None, file=None, files=None, stickers=None, delete_after=None, nonce=None, allowed_mentions=None, reference=None, ...)```
This function is a [*coroutine*](https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio-task.html#coroutine).

Sends a message to the destination with the content given.

The content must be a type that can convert to a string through `str(content)`. If the content is set to `None` (the default), then the `embed` parameter must be provided.

To upload a single file, the `file` parameter should be used with a single [`File`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api.html#discord.File "discord.File") object. To upload multiple files, the `files` parameter should be used with a [`list`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#list "(in Python v3.11)") of [`File`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api.html#discord.File "discord.File") objects. **Specifying both parameters will lead to an exception**.

To upload a single embed, the `embed` parameter should be used with a single [`Embed`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api.html#discord.Embed "discord.Embed") object. To upload multiple embeds, the `embeds` parameter should be used with a [`list`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#list "(in Python v3.11)") of [`Embed`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api.html#discord.Embed "discord.Embed") objects. **Specifying both parameters will lead to an exception**.

[sick birch]

If you'll notice there's a delete_after kwargs

[hushed galleon]

if the mute is for a long period of time, you might have to store the channel+message id and timestamp in a database

[nova mauve]

ty

[nova mauve]

channel id of the user’s dms i assume??

[hushed galleon]

yea, then you can use Client.get_partial_messageable() + PartialMessageable.get_partial_message() + PartialMessage.delete() to remove it

[nova mauve]

wtf is partial messageable never seen that before

[hushed galleon]

its new in dpy 2.0

PartialMessage[able]s are just there if you want to make particular API requests (send/edit/delete) without having to fetch the actual channel/message objects

[nova mauve]

i barely use this module n whenever i do there’s always new shit added

[nova mauve]

makes things easier lol ig like making an api request itself

[slate swan]

you can just use bot.http.delete_message(/s)

[versed comet]

can someone please help me? it's giving error in dotenv, I think I uninstalled it by accident

the bot is not initializing

plsss

[slate swan]

how can I # the channel?

 @discord.ui.button(label='Open Ticket', style=discord.ButtonStyle.green)
  async def count(self, interaction: discord.Interaction, button: discord.ui.Button):
    with open('tickets.txt', 'r') as f:
        words = f.read()
        test = words.split()
    if str(interaction.user.id) in test:
      await interaction.response.send_message(f"{interaction.user.mention} you already have a ticket open. #ticket-{interaction.user.id}", ephemeral=True)
    else:

this is my code

[mossy jacinth]

can someone help me? why does it say 'User' object has no attribute 'edit'

[winged linden]

I'm trying to make a leaderboard command for my bot. I was hoping someone could assist me with this.

[winged linden]

channel.mention

[mossy jacinth]

accidentally sent a other command too mb

[slate swan]

To mention the channel? You need to somehow get the channel object and use TextChannel.mention

[mossy jacinth]

<#channel_id>

should work

[slate swan]

yea but I need to get the channel id or the channel

and this is when they click open ticket

[winged linden]

f"<#{interaction.channel.id}>"

[slate swan]

I don't know NextCord but the error should tell you everything you need to know
Try searching through their docs, you'll probably find what you're after there

how do I get the channel id....

[winged linden]

^^^

[slate swan]

that will return the support channel

[winged linden]

You want it to return their ticket?

You need to store who owns each ticket somewhere

[slate swan]

Store the ticket channel ID in your database whenever someone makes a new ticket then

[winged linden]

^

Store their user id aswell in the same record

And make it remove the record once the ticket is closed

[slate swan]

i have the user id stored

[winged linden]

In your database?

[slate swan]

everytime a user makes a ticket there id gets stored

if its in there they cant make another

[dull terrace]

in a text file?

[slate swan]

with open('tickets.txt', 'r') as f:
words = f.read()
test = words.split()
if str(interaction.user.id) in test:

[winged linden]

you would have to store the channel along with the userID

[slate swan]

Then store the ticket ID with the user ID so they are associated with one another

wait what

[winged linden]

^ (Delliott only takes Ws)

[slate swan]

can you help me on this

[winged linden]

Basically right now your just storing their user id when they make a ticket

but that user ID isn't associated with any channel or anything

So you can't grab the ticket

[slate swan]

channelid = await c.send(f"{interaction.user.mention} Please wait for staff. ({client.ticket}), to close this ticket do .close. Your next ticket can be open in 5m.")
int(channelid)

would this work?

to get the channel id

[winged linden]

no?

[dull terrace]

idealy you'd use a database, but the next step for you that would be adequate would probably be learning about dictionaries and storing json

[slate swan]

if a user opens a ticket,
Search for the user's ID in the db then return the corresponding ticket channel ID (if it exists)
if it doesn't exist then it means the user has no active ticket so they are allowed to open a new one
Otherwise they have a ticket open and you know the ID of the ticket channel so you can fetch_channel and mention it in your message

def save_warn(ctx, member: discord.Member):
    with open('warns.json', 'r') as f:
         warns = json.load(f)

         warns[str(member.id)] += 1

    with open('warns.json', 'w') as f:
         json.dump(warns, f)

def remove_warn(ctx, member: discord.Member, amount: int):
    with open('warns.json', 'r') as f:
         warns = json.load(f)

         warns[str(member.id)] -= amount

    with open('warns.json', 'w') as f:
         json.dump(warns, f)

could I use this warn code?

[winged linden]

you can use aspects of it

But if you mean copy and paste no

[dull terrace]

do you understand what dictionaries are and how to use them?

[slate swan]

also yes databases are better for this just as Olie mentioned

I tried to use a .json like 2 years ago when I was new to dpy to store prefixes and stuff

databases are way better, I was noob back then

[dull terrace]

they're currently storing stuff in text files though so must be brand new

[slate swan]

i just need help storing it

and reading it

[cloud dawn]

Aren't we all still?

[slate swan]

I am slightly less of a noob now I think but yes true :)

[slate swan]

not rlly

[slate swan]

.

[spring needle]

If I want to make a function that timeout user for 10 secs every time the command is-used, how can I make the timeout accumulable?

[primal token]

No just robin

[sick birch]

meanie i cry

[slate swan]

You mean add 10 seconds extra to a user's timeout if they're already in timeout?

[spring needle]

Yes

[cloud dawn]

New Discord.py flag guys premium_promo_dismissed

New flag for robin spammer as well.

[slate swan]

That seems like a weird way to handle a timeout command.
But Member.timeout accepts datetime.datetime as the date/time at which the user will be un-timed-out. So you can probably store that somewhere and use it to figure out how much longer to keep a user timed out for, if they receive another time-out whilst already being timed out. But I don't know exactly how you'd go about doing it.

[slate swan]

could you help me

[cloud dawn]

And datetime.timedelta :3

It's actually better to use timedelta rather than datetime objects considering time zones.

[slate swan]

True true
Again I've never really used timeout so I don't know the best way to go about doing this sort of stuff

[cloud dawn]

I've made a command if you're interested.

[slate swan]

It's fine :) someday I'll stop procrastinating and learn everything properly, but thanks lol

[cloud dawn]

I meant just as example.

[slate swan]

if you wanna show me then sure

[spring summit]

i get no errors, but the the command doesnt work

[cloud dawn]

https://paste.pythondiscord.com/zawejipete

[slate swan]

@spring summit maybe do keyy_codes.read()

Very nice!

[cloud dawn]

I don't think you can overengineer it much more lol

[slate swan]

I have the tall task of trying to build a multi-player poker game in my bot. Might ditch the multi-player aspect and just do player-vs-dealer.

bro I want to make a game in my bot

pls help me 😭

[cloud dawn]

Interesting, tough with poker night it's a tough beat.

[granite plume]

how do you update an embed

[slate swan]

embedname.edit(embed=newembed)

[cloud dawn]

Just edit the message.

[granite plume]

alright thanks

is embed.edit a real thing?

[cloud dawn]

No.

Unless you name the message that way I guess.

[granite plume]

then how do you edit the message

[cloud dawn]

You send a new embed.

[granite plume]

message.edit?

[spring summit]

npe didnt work

[cloud dawn]

Yes.

[slate swan]

@spring summit show code

read = keyy_codes.read()
if str(ctx.author.id) in read:

[slate swan]

Evaluating the different cards and searching for pairs, full houses, etc is gonna be the main complication for me 😭 I have a vague idea of how to implement everything but hopefully once I get it all done I can start looking at releasing the first official version of the bot :-).

[cloud dawn]

Well... to be honest they are just values and combo's.

[slate swan]

with open('file.txt', 'r') as f:
        read = keyy_codes.read()
        read = read.split()
        if str(ctx.author.id) in read:

try to do this

[spring summit]

ok thanks illl lyk

[slate swan]

alr

[cloud dawn]

If you'd represent card to values 1 to 14

[slate swan]

I can get confusing quickly though
If 2 players both get 1 pair you then gotta look at the value of the pairs
Then if they both get a pair of 9s you have to go to the highest suit
Idk lot's of tiny details to account for, then again that's coding for you
Maybe I'm just small-brain when it comes to python

whats the best way to make a game in py? like a chicken fight game

how can I make ppl join and fight?

[cloud dawn]

I mean I'd make a deck, then deal out "cards" then they'd have card for starters then reveal card and looking for combo's.

[slate swan]

That's exactly the type of system I am already using in other games such as Blackjack. I can re-use parts of that code.

Though blackjack is much simpler since suits don't play any role.

Is it possible to add buttons to webhooks?

Anyway I gotta go cook cya guys round

[granite plume]

welp

this would be easier to explain if i had the code

but i don't have a variable called "message"

just ctx and embed

[cloud dawn]

Show what you got so far.

[granite plume]

can I DM you

[cloud dawn]

I'd rather not or is private code?

[granite plume]

not really private

i'll just show you here it's a US/canada capital game bot

                state = curstates[i]
                embed=discord.Embed(title=f"Round #{i+1}: What is the capital of `{state}`:",\
                                    description="Type `$guess` or `$g` before the capital to make a guess", color=0x4278f5)
                await ctx.send(embed=embed)
                
                #=await ctx.send(f"Round #{i+1}: What is the capital of {state} (Type `$guess` or `$g` to make a guess): ")
                user_guess = (await bot.wait_for('message', check=check)).content
                #Check to see whether user uses $guess or $g, or if the command is used at all in the first place
                while not user_guess.startswith('$g'):
                    user_guess = (await bot.wait_for('message', check=check)).content
                
                if user_guess.startswith('$guess'):
                    user_guess = (user_guess.removeprefix("$guess")).strip()
                else:
                    user_guess = (user_guess.removeprefix("$g")).strip()
                
                #THE MAIN THING ↓↓↓↓↓↓↓
                if state in territories:
                    cur_dict = territory_dict
                else:
                    cur_dict = main_dict
                if user_guess.capitalize() == cur_dict[state].capitalize():
                    embed=discord.Embed(title=f"Good job {ctx.author}! You are correct! :)",\
                                        description=f"State: `{state}`\nThe correct answer was: `{cur_dict[state]}`", color=0x0ca307) 

                    await ctx.send(embed=embed)
                    #=await ctx.send("Good job! You are correct! :)")
         
                else:
                    embed=discord.Embed(title=f"You're wrong {ctx.author} :(",\
                                        description=f"State: `{state}`\nThe correct answer was: `{cur_dict[state]}`", color=0xe34d2b) 
                    await ctx.send(embed=embed)

see how there are 2 embeds?

i want to edit the first embed to have the 2nd embeds content

[cloud dawn]

await ctx.send(embed=embed) return a message object

So msg = await ctx.send(embed=embed) is a valid syntax.

[granite plume]

oh nice

[granite plume]

that didn't work

instead of editing the embed

it just sends this

[slate swan]

🥶 long time no see this channel

[granite plume]

<Message id=(not sharing with this server) channel=<TextChannel id=(not sharing with this server) name='bot-testing' position=2 nsfw=False news=False category_id=(not sharing with this server)> type=<MessageType.default: 0> author=<Member id=(not sharing with this server) name='(not sharing with this server)' discriminator='(not sharing with this server)' bot=True nick=None guild=<Guild id=(not sharing with this server) name='(not sharing with this server)' shard_id=0 chunked=True member_count=6>> flags=<MessageFlags value=0>>

[slate swan]

looks like you're using jishaku

[granite plume]

what's that

[slate swan]

nvm

[granite plume]

i just wanted help editing an embed

[slate swan]

after following his part, iirc you've to use msg.edit

!d discord.Message.edit

[unkempt canyon]

discord.Message.edit

await edit(*, content=..., embed=..., embeds=..., attachments=..., suppress=False, delete_after=None, allowed_mentions=..., view=...)```
This function is a [*coroutine*](https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio-task.html#coroutine).

Edits the message.

The content must be able to be transformed into a string via `str(content)`.

Changed in version 1.3: The `suppress` keyword-only parameter was added.

Changed in version 2.0: Edits are no longer in-place, the newly edited message is returned instead.

Changed in version 2.0: This function will now raise [`TypeError`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/exceptions.html#TypeError "(in Python v3.11)") instead of `InvalidArgument`.

[slate swan]

🥶 yes

[granite plume]

that's what i did

[slate swan]

bruh?

can someone help w making an slash command into a task

[slate swan]

eh, mind elaborating it a bit?

[slate swan]

hm, i believe that it shuold work fine

may i have a look at ur code?

[slate swan]

"that's because its running it all in the single /create command... the 2 slash commands aren't directly connected by anything...
I suggest using nextcord tasks for this instead..." someone told me that

[granite plume]

basically

embed=discord.Embed(title=f"Round #{i+1}: What is the capital of `{state}`:",description="Type `$guess` or `$g` before the capital to make a guess", color=0x4278f5)
bot_response = await ctx.send(embed=embed)

embed=discord.Embed(title=f"Good job {ctx.author}! You are correct! :)",\
                    description=f"State: `{state}`\nThe correct answer was: `{cur_dict[state]}`", color=0x0ca307) 
bot_response.edit(embed=embed)
await ctx.send(bot_response)

that didn't work at all

[slate swan]

it's an async function

so

await bot_response.edit(embed=embed)

[granite plume]

o h

[slate swan]

try it & lemme know if u still face issue 🥶

[granite plume]

ok

[slate swan]

what are u exactly trying to make?

would be nice if u tell me the same thing that u told that 'someone'

[granite plume]

alright it works

thanks @slate swan

[slate swan]

ok so i made a giveaway slash command,
i did create giveaway reroll giveaway and end giveaway

But the end giveaway is not ending the giveaway bc create giveaway and end giveaway are not connected

gg bro

[slate swan]

:>

[slate swan]

hm, see u can make it this way

how about u create a giveaway, & the giveaway will have an ID. and in order to end any giveaway one has to pass that ID, given that it has to be used by someone who has perms & is in the same server

🥶 lmk if u find it hard to understand or if u ain't getting my point

[slate swan]

thats actually a good idea

yes

how do i make an id to a giveaway that wasnt created yet

[slate swan]

🥶 ok that's fked up

well, just have 2 attribtues in the table

does is have documents?

one will have the message ID of the giveaway message & 2nd will be the giveaway ID

so u can store or change or add giveaway ID & stuff on your own

thank u sm!

[slate swan]

haha no ig 🥶

[slate swan]

:>

[indigo pilot]

Does anyone know if theres a way to access all questions, or answers in one var for the model form?

[slate swan]

hm

how many questions you're expecting to be there?

[indigo pilot]

im doing one form that will display questions depending on a global var value, but after i display them i set it back to none so it dosnt show the wrong questions to someone else

but since i set it back to none i wont know what questions there are

i do use a format just Question(number)

but there will be a diff amount of questions for diff values

[indigo pilot]

Im not too sure, 3-6 depending on what departmet

[slate swan]

hm

[indigo pilot]

https://femboi.best/liU2zt9L

havnt filled everything in yet but thats what i mean

i cant just check if self.question{number}.value all the way up to 6 because question{number} will litterly be none if it isnt a question so

[slate swan]

thats not how you use classes

[indigo pilot]

i mean like, thats litteraly in the docs for the example model lol

[slate swan]

where's FormQuestions defined?

[indigo pilot]

and thats how ive used forms ever since they came out and there isnt any problem

[indigo pilot]

its a global var, since i cant pass a var in as i cant access self

not the best way i would like to do it

but its the only way i could think of

[cerulean folio]

Hi guys !
I just coded this command that will create a Quiz. The quiz has two main functions one for asking the questionnaire and one for cancelling the questionnaire if someone writes 'cancel'.
Although this is the output I'm getting when testing it (Question 1 has been validated by question 2 before the quizz gets stopped by the cancel. I'd want it to cancel instantly):
https://paste.pythondiscord.com/pibomexeqi

EDIT: Also Question 1 shouldn't have trigger question 2 when I wrote 'cancel' :o

[slate swan]

you're aware that you can use the init right?

[indigo pilot]

theres one more way i think but its alot more work

[indigo pilot]

yeah but i wont be able to access it where your supposed to have model questions

[silent portal]

Hey, I'm making a Voice XP System and don't know what is more efficient. Should I create a asyncio.sleep() for every user joining a VC? Or save the Datetime of the Join in a DB and go through it with a for loop?

[slate swan]

the latter

[slate swan]

you can actually just save the timestamps instead of complete datetimes

[cerulean folio]

Ok I fixed it, my filter method was returning self.ctx.message.content.lower() != 'cancel' which makes absolutely no sense !

[silent portal]

nah, what if they chill in VC more than 24 hours or the time goes past 0

[slate swan]

what? timestamp instead related to hours

[indigo pilot]

i just re-read this, and this would work out

My problem now then would be, each department has diff amount of questions, some could have 2 others 6, so i woul dneed a way to still make the amount of questions that i need

Unless i can make 6 questions, then remove the ones i dont need inside the innit but i dont think that will work ?

unless setting it none would work

[silent portal]

oh lol nvm.. yh ur right

[abstract kindle]

@slate swan, could I setup an error handler to try and catch the errors manually?

I'm still having the issues where I don't get any errors

[rustic edge]

Every time I run the command $bread, I get the error "discord.ext.commands.errors.CommandNotFound: Command "bread" is not found"

My code:

import discord
from discord.ext.commands import Bot
from discord import Intents
intents = Intents.all()
client = Bot(intents=discord.Intents.all(), command_prefix='$') 

@client.event
async def on_ready():
    print(f'Bot connected as {client.user}')
    
@client.command
async def on_message(message):
    if message.content == 'bread':
        await message.channel.send('BREAD FOR LIFE BREAD FOR LOVE :bread:')

        
client.run("token")

[abstract kindle]

@client.command()
async def bread(ctx):
  await ctx.send('BREAD FOR LIFE BREAD FOR LOVE :bread:')

You were mixing an on_message event with a command

[indigo pilot]

i dont use non slash cmds but im pretty pos bc your using a event not a command lol

[silent portal]

This is not a command. For commands you would use the following:

@client.command()
async def bread(ctx):
    await ctx.send('BREAD FOR LIFE BREAD FOR LOVE :bread:')```
And just remove the `on_message event`

[slate swan]

ofcourse you can, do you have some error handler setup already?

[rustic edge]

ty ❤️

[abstract kindle]

I forgot the parenthesis after the decorator, don't forget those

[rustic edge]

Whats does CTX stand for?

[abstract kindle]

And I had ctx.channel lol just go with beros

ctx stands for context, which is basically just the context of the command being used. For example, who used it, where it was used

[abstract kindle]

I don't, which is why I'm confused

[indigo pilot]

yall type so fast jeez 😭

snet your message before i could even start typing

[abstract kindle]

Comes from years of LoL @indigo pilot

Gotta flame with speed and eloquence

[indigo pilot]

Lmaoo

[slate swan]

well then go for a quick lookup, search for on_error, on_app_command_error functions in your code

im high yeah

[hushed galleon]

you can dynamically add new text inputs in init as i implied, but modals are limited to 1-5 text inputs and discord unfortunately doesnt allow followup modals, so you would need a way for them to answer multiple modals (perhaps, a message with buttons to open each modal?)

[waxen cradle]

why content.startswith() doesn't work? if i delete it the bot will respond to any message sent but i want to make a special command for it

[abstract kindle]

the only error handler I have is on_command_error which shouldn't catch it

[abstract kindle]

don't use events for commands. use actual commands

[naive briar]

Do you have message_content intent on?

[abstract kindle]

Scroll up and look at WhineyMonkey's question

[indigo pilot]

hmm, maybe it would be better just to do message questions then, old fassion lol, then people can send imgs too

[naive briar]

And also this ^

[waxen cradle]

i have client = discord.Client(intents=discord.Intents.default())

[slate swan]

yeah, could you just paste all your code and send it
you can use a private github repository or a gist if number of files is the issue

[waxen cradle]

ill look it up rn

[naive briar]

default does not have message_content by default

[abstract kindle]

@slate swan can you see if I link a private repo?

[naive briar]

!d discord.Intents.message_content

[unkempt canyon]

discord.Intents.message\_content

Whether message content, attachments, embeds and components will be available in messages which do not meet the following criteria:

• The message was sent by the client

• The message was sent in direct messages

• The message mentions the client

This applies to the following events...

[naive briar]

Intents.default have all intents but privileged ones

[abstract kindle]

@waxen cradle

@client.command()
async def hello(ctx):
  await ctx.send("Hello!!")
```This is an example of a command

[slate swan]

yeah, you'll have to invite me in the repo tho

[abstract kindle]

I see. I think I'll try to setup another bot on another computer and try to reproduce it first

[waxen cradle]

Ty very much

[rustic edge]

When I use that format for another command it says it's not found.

[abstract kindle]

Sorry!!! send error @rustic edge

[silent portal]

show ur code

[indigo pilot]

plus, wdym add them dynamically? with the exampley ou showed isnt htat just setting the label value to something, not adding more questions

[rustic edge]

discord.ext.commands.errors.CommandNotFound: Command "cat" is not found

import discord
from discord.ext.commands import Bot
from discord import Intents
intents = Intents.all()
client = Bot(intents=discord.Intents.all(), command_prefix='!') 

@client.event
async def on_ready():
    print(f'Bot connected as {client.user}')
    

@client.command()
async def bread(ctx):
    await ctx.send('BREAD FOR LIFE BREAD FOR LOVE :bread:')
async def cat(ctx):
    from IPython.display import Image
    import requests, json 

    catURL = 'http://aws.random.cat/meow'

    imageURL = json.loads(requests.get(catURL).content)["file"]

    img = Image(requests.get(imageURL).content)
    await ctx.send(img)
        
client.run("token")```

[abstract kindle]

You need a new decorator

[silent portal]

Why are you importing stuff in ur command?

[rustic edge]

im so dumb

ty guys ❤️

[indigo pilot]

^^

[slate swan]

dont use requests library!!!

!blocking

[unkempt canyon]

Why do we need asynchronous programming?
Imagine that you're coding a Discord bot and every time somebody uses a command, you need to get some information from a database. But there's a catch: the database servers are acting up today and take a whole 10 seconds to respond. If you do not use asynchronous methods, your whole bot will stop running until it gets a response from the database. How do you fix this? Asynchronous programming.

What is asynchronous programming?
An asynchronous program utilises the async and await keywords. An asynchronous program pauses what it's doing and does something else whilst it waits for some third-party service to complete whatever it's supposed to do. Any code within an async context manager or function marked with the await keyword indicates to Python, that whilst this operation is being completed, it can do something else. For example:

import discord

# Bunch of bot code

async def ping(ctx):
    await ctx.send("Pong!")

What does the term "blocking" mean?
A blocking operation is wherever you do something without awaiting it. This tells Python that this step must be completed before it can do anything else. Common examples of blocking operations, as simple as they may seem, include: outputting text, adding two numbers and appending an item onto a list. Most common Python libraries have an asynchronous version available to use in asynchronous contexts.

async libraries
The standard async library - asyncio
Asynchronous web requests - aiohttp
Talking to PostgreSQL asynchronously - asyncpg
MongoDB interactions asynchronously - motor
Check out this list for even more!

[abstract kindle]

from IPython.display import Image
import requests, json 


@client.command()
async def bread(ctx):
    await ctx.send('BREAD FOR LIFE BREAD FOR LOVE :bread:')

@client.command()
async def cat(ctx):
    catURL = 'http://aws.random.cat/meow'

    imageURL = json.loads(requests.get(catURL).content)["file"]

    img = Image(requests.get(imageURL).content)
    await ctx.send(img)

[silent portal]

import discord
from discord.ext.commands import Bot
from discord import Intents
from IPython.display import Image
import requests, json 

intents = Intents.all()
client = Bot(intents=discord.Intents.all(), command_prefix='!') 

@client.event
async def on_ready():
    print(f'Bot connected as {client.user}')
    

@client.command()
async def bread(ctx):
    await ctx.send('BREAD FOR LIFE BREAD FOR LOVE :bread:')

@client.command()
async def cat(ctx):
    catURL = 'http://aws.random.cat/meow'

    imageURL = json.loads(requests.get(catURL).content)["file"]

    img = Image(requests.get(imageURL).content)
    await ctx.send(img)
        
client.run("token")```

[rustic edge]

ty

[silent portal]

yw

[slate swan]

❎ ```py
imageURL = json.loads(requests.get(catURL).content)["file"]

✅ ```py
    imageURL = requests.get(carURL).json()["file"]

[hushed galleon]

its done the same as regular Views by calling self.add_item() and passing your TextInput instance

[indigo pilot]

oh so i can litterly just define all my questions inside init with self.add_item?

[hushed galleon]

i think your questionnaire can be done just with buttons/modals/app commands (for the attachment part), but it would be much more complicated than a message-based implementation

[upper pelican]

async def main(ctx):
    while True:
        if console.alive:
            frametime = time.time()
            bot.run(frametime)
            scheduler.run(frametime)
            console.run()
            await client.send()
            await asyncio.sleep(0.5)
        else:
            await client.close()
            print("QUIT NOW.")
            os._exit(0)
            

client.c.loop.create_task(main())
client.run()

AttributeError: loop attribute cannot be accessed in non-async contexts. Consider using either an asynchronous main function and passing it to asyncio.run or using asynchronous initialisation hooks such as Client.setup_hook i dont understand what should i do exactly

[indigo pilot]

yeah im gonna stick to forms since it would take me years to do messages for 30 diff departments

and just make people use imgur or something

https://femboi.best/FVNP7D5L u mean something like this right?

or did i missunderstnad you

because if i can do it like that, my life is so easy

[hushed galleon]

pretty much

[slate swan]

is varthing a classvar?

[upper pelican]

^^

[indigo pilot]

i woul dlove to cry rn

wish i knew that 2 months ago, the amount of pain and suffering ive done with forms to do dymanic questions with jaggy ways

😭
but thank you

then i guess i can just access my self.varthing or what ever again in the code to check what set of questions its using

[indigo pilot]

it sbeing passed into the model

its nothing rn i just was sharing a example

[slate swan]

passed into the model as in inside the init right?you can access it from there directly

[dense coral]

Who needs help?

[indigo pilot]

im not needs help

[primal token]

i do

[indigo pilot]

yea i know

[upper pelican]

@dense coral

[indigo pilot]

i just didnt know i could use self.add_item or what ever inside innit to define questions

[dense coral]

just a second

[upper pelican]

alr

[dense coral]

why you are use on this ? await asyncio.sleep(0.5)

but, I think that this is not the problem

[upper pelican]

it isnt

[waxen cradle]

Guys, if i want my bot to send a message everyday at a specific hour only how can i approach this (i tried with the good old While True and time.sleep() and asyncio.sleep, but they dont work)

[dense coral]

async def watching():
  await bot.wait_until_ready()
client.loop.create_task(watching())```
This is the template for the loop

[waxen cradle]

that was fast

thanks tho🙇‍♂️

[upper pelican]

is anyone able to help with this

[waxen cradle]

look at what yarin sent, i tried with While True like u did and for me at least it doesn't work

[slate swan]

both methods are bad you'll have to use a task loop ```py
from discord.ext import tasks

@tasks.loop(<time here>)
async def send_message():

# do your stuff to repeat after time

@send_message.before_loop
async def before():
await bot.wait_until_ready()
send_message.start()

[waxen cradle]

much appreciated 🙏

[silent portal]

Which one's better for efficiency?

timer = threading.Timer(30, do_something)`
timer.start()```
or 
```py
asyncio.sleep(30)

[slate swan]

2nd

[abstract kindle]

how do I make an app command error handler

[slate swan]

on_app_command_error event

waittt i think there's one more thing that can cause your no error issue, do you use bot.run() or bot.start() ? @abstract kindle

[abstract kindle]

async with bot:
    await load_extensions()
    await bot.start(data["token"])

then ```py
ayncio.run(main())

[slate swan]

yeah thats the issue, you'll have to manually configure logging if you use bot.start, can you just try replacing it with bot.run() for a while and try?

[abstract kindle]

bot.run is not a coroutine, right

[slate swan]

yea you wont be awaiting it

[abstract kindle]

[2022-11-08 14:17:17] [INFO ] discord.client: logging in using static token

[slate swan]

yeah great, it didnt use to print earlier right?

[abstract kindle]

I think it fixed the logging? But how come it says logging in with a static token? Also none of my commands are being found

[slate swan]

did you remove the load_extensions() ?

static token means a bot token, thats totally normal

discord.py added these logging in 2.0

[abstract kindle]

None of the commands are being found anymore. Also, how come I would remove load_extensions()? That loads all my cogs

[slate swan]

can i see your updated bot running code

[abstract kindle]

Hold on, I have everything in my main file in a main() function so I could use await, is that fine?

[slate swan]

ofcourse

[abstract kindle]

I think I did that so I could start tasks in the on_ready() event

[slate swan]

you could start them in a setup_hook

unless you use a fork

[abstract kindle]

I had a setup_hook, but that was so I could setup bot.db for my database

bot.run(data["token"])
asyncio.run(main())

This is the part that runs though

[slate swan]

just move the bot.run() inside your main function bud

your bot.run() is blocking asyncio.run() here, so no extensions are getting loaded

[abstract kindle]

but not under

await with bot:

[slate swan]

async with bot:
    await load_extensions()
    bot.run(data["token"])
``` inside the main function

[abstract kindle]

okay that's what I had, one sec

yeah i got this error

RuntimeError: asyncio.run() cannot be called from a running event loop
sys:1: RuntimeWarning: coroutine 'Client.run.<locals>.runner' was never awaited

[slate swan]

hm can you send all the runner code

!d discord.utils.setup_logging

[unkempt canyon]

discord.utils.setup\_logging

discord.utils.setup_logging(*, handler=..., formatter=..., level=..., root=True)```
A helper function to setup logging.

This is superficially similar to [`logging.basicConfig()`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/logging.html#logging.basicConfig "(in Python v3.11)") but uses different defaults and a colour formatter if the stream can display colour.

This is used by the [`Client`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api.html#discord.Client "discord.Client") to set up logging if `log_handler` is not `None`.

New in version 2.0.

[abstract kindle]

@bot.event
async def on_ready():
    print("Bot is ready.")
    activity = discord.Game("-help")
    await bot.change_presence(status=discord.Status.online, activity=activity)
    
    print(f"-- BOT RAN --\nRan at: {now}")
    drop_task.start()
    farm_task.start()

I do have this IN the main function

[slate swan]

that should create an issue

[abstract kindle]

Got it. Move it outside the main?

[slate swan]

oops, * not create an issue

[abstract kindle]

async def main():
    async def load_extensions():  # Function for loading cogs upon bot.run
        for filename in os.listdir('./Cogs'):
            if filename.endswith('.py'):
                await bot.load_extension(f'Cogs.{filename[:-3]}')

    async with bot:
        await load_extensions()
        bot.run(data["token"])
``` This is entire main function now

[slate swan]

actually you know you can fix it even more easily

just revert the code to how it was

and add discord.utils.setup_logging() just before bot.start

it will fix your issue

[abstract kindle]

Life saver

Actually. This was so frustrating!!!!

Thanks a ton !!

[slate swan]

it took a whole day lol

[abstract kindle]

Yeah I was so lost

[slate swan]

no probss, the soln was easier than all we tried lol

[abstract kindle]

I was just putting print statements and debugging ALL over the place and it was getting old

[abstract kindle]

for real

[2022-11-08 14:34:07] [INFO    ] discord.client: logging in using static token
[2022-11-08 14:34:09] [INFO    ] discord.gateway: Shard ID None has connected to Gateway (Session ID: 261225937d7fda3da5ff7552e1262164).
```So this is normal?

It scares me cause red = bad

[slate swan]

yes thats totally normal

INFO logs are just about the actions your lib is doing
you just gotta check warning logs if any of them get raised

[abstract kindle]

Got it

Also, I'm kinda new to slash commands. What's the best practice for syncing commands?

[slate swan]

i use stuff similar to setup_hook for automatic syncing
people will also suggest to use a command to do the syncing

so the code doesnt sync itself all the time

can i use database in cogs?

[abstract kindle]

yeah, previously I made a reload command to reload whatever Cog I chose, and I had an option to sync commands

[slate swan]

you can do that anywhere!

oh thats great

thankss

[slate swan]

its totally fine if that works for you

[abstract kindle]

cool. also, I run my bot in 2 different servers. Would I have to have 2 different sync lines?

[slate swan]

idk about syncing stuff in discord.py, you can wait for someone else to respond maybe
( if its a global command you wont have to sync seperately lol )

[abstract kindle]

I think I figured it out. Bot has to have proper permissions in both guilds lol

[slate swan]

yea the applicationcommands scope

[abstract kindle]

does the decorator also work? as in

@app_commands.guilds(856915776345866240, 977351545966432306)

[slate swan]

i think it should

!d discord.app_commands.guilds

[unkempt canyon]

discord.app\_commands.guilds

@discord.app_commands.guilds(*guild_ids)```
Associates the given guilds with the command.

When the command instance is added to a [`CommandTree`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/interactions/api.html#discord.app_commands.CommandTree "discord.app_commands.CommandTree"), the guilds that are specified by this decorator become the default guilds that it’s added to rather than being a global command.

Note

Due to an implementation quirk and Python limitation, if this is used in conjunction with the [`CommandTree.command()`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/interactions/api.html#discord.app_commands.CommandTree.command "discord.app_commands.CommandTree.command") or [`CommandTree.context_menu()`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/interactions/api.html#discord.app_commands.CommandTree.context_menu "discord.app_commands.CommandTree.context_menu") decorator then this must go below that decorator.

Example...

[slate swan]

yea

nextcord.errors.ApplicationInvokeError: Command raised an exception: OperationalError: no such column: command

[abstract kindle]

perfect. Thanks again for your help sarth, saved me a lot of frustration

[slate swan]

!paste

[unkempt canyon]

Pasting large amounts of code

If your code is too long to fit in a codeblock in Discord, you can paste your code here:
https://paste.pythondiscord.com/

After pasting your code, save it by clicking the floppy disk icon in the top right, or by typing ctrl + S. After doing that, the URL should change. Copy the URL and post it here so others can see it.

[slate swan]

https://paste.pythondiscord.com/igoqufucom
trying to make a database thats its taking the member who did the giveaway and then he can end it w the id he did

[potent spear]

you should use a setup_hook instead of doing stuff in on_ready first of all

[slate swan]

Oh thanks

[potent spear]

you can put that db stuff in your bot file btw
add a db connection as a botvar

[waxen cradle]

why doenst content.startwith(!) work inside the command?

[potent spear]

on_message is an event, not a command => wrong decorator

also, time.sleep is blocking, you should use await asyncio.sleep(...) from the asyncio lib

[waxen cradle]

oh yea thx, even imported it but forgot

[waxen cradle]

but what decorator could i use?

[potent spear]

in the quickstart of the docs, it even shows an example of on_message....

[silent portal]

How can I make the @tasks.loop(minutes=2) start after 2 Minutes and not run once and repeat every 2 mins? So the first run starts after 2 mins

[slate swan]

use @task.before_loop then cancel the task

[idle laurel]

what are the limitations with background tasks in discord?

[slate swan]

what exactly do u mean by that

[slate swan]

💀 you mean @task.before_loop?

[slate swan]

uhhh yea sumn like that lmao

[idle laurel]

i want to creat a mongodb streamer which will send a user a message in the background when some values change

originally i was going to make this run seperate to the bot but i dont think i can send private messages without running it in in discord.py/ nextcord?

[silent portal]

ok tyty

Also are normal commands (not slash) now deactivated completely for public bots?

[winged coral]

Nope, unverified bots still get content intent without filling out the application

[idle laurel]

is there a way can send direct messages without using discord.py thought the bot?

[slate swan]

yeah use the rest api

https://discord.com/developers/docs/resources/channel#create-message

[idle laurel]

i need the users channel id for this tho? not just the user id?

[slate swan]

you send the message to their dm channel, not the user object

their user-id is the channel-id there

[idle laurel]

https://discord.com/api/v9/channels/user-id/messages returns me a 401 error, when using the bots authorization code

[slate swan]

show ur code lol

[idle laurel]

im just using postman atm for that, not wrote anything up

when browsing through the requests ive sent when sending a message the channel-id isnt the same as user-id for private messages?

[slate swan]

it includes the "@me" yeah

wait ill verify and ping

[idle laurel]

alright

[slate swan]

okay so you gotta create a dm channel and get it's ID first then you can send a message there

also while using postman, did you provide the headers?

[idle laurel]

yeah copied the bash from discord request

so ive just tried that changing the auth token and recipients and 401 error again -.-

[slate swan]

401 means lack of authorization

[idle laurel]

using the bots token

[slate swan]

did your headers look like this ```py
{"Authorization": "Bot <your token here>",
"Content-Type" : "application/json"}

[idle laurel]

ive got these enabled with the correct token, still coming back 401. ill try without postman see if thats the issue

[slate swan]

your authorization field is wrong

it should be "Bot ...", not just "..."

[idle laurel]

oooh, mb

smh that worked fine lol

cheers

[spring summit]

?

[sick birch]

You're sure this is where the error is? I don't see await channel.send('hello') in that image

[spring summit]

i changed the hello to "somebody redeemed a bronze key"

[sick birch]

And is it still the same error?

[spring summit]

oh wait nvm the bot was running LMAO

[slate swan]

how would i wait for a specific users, user input
like if i were to do $input
and someone else says something for some reason it takes that instead

[patent wagon]

how do i make my discord bot leave the guild

[primal token]

!d discord.Guild.leave

[unkempt canyon]

discord.Guild.leave

await leave()```
This function is a [*coroutine*](https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio-task.html#coroutine).

Leaves the guild.

Note

You cannot leave the guild that you own, you must delete it instead via [`delete()`](https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api.html#discord.Guild.delete "discord.Guild.delete").

[patent wagon]

the last guild it was added to to be specific

[primal token]

You can always have a global var of the last guild it joined to or you can get the object

[slate swan]

no actual way of doing that other that getting the guild id itself then getting the obj like noid said.

[patent wagon]

i ahve @client.even on_guild join can i possible check if len(client.guilds)>1: await.leave()

[slate swan]

if ur using on_guild_join just do guild.leave() and it will leave the second it joins a guild

[patent wagon]

ok but

thats only if its len(client.guilds)>1

maybe i want len(client.guilds)> some N

[slate swan]

no client.guilds does not put the guilds in any order

so wouldn't work

[patent wagon]

what the

bruhhh

[slate swan]

u would just be leaving random guilds at that point

[patent wagon]

i can append guild ids in a list

and leave the one with the L[lenL-1]

could i?

[slate swan]

no. all that would do is leave the last guild u appended

u cant get the last guild ur bot joined other than getting the guilds id and getting the guild obj

[patent wagon]

why does it say leave isnt defined

[primal token]

Because its a method and isnt in scope

[patent wagon]

wdym?

[patent wagon]

how doi make it work

[primal token]

You use the method on a guild object?

[patent wagon]

like this?

[primal token]

Guild.id returns a snowflake and gets treated as an int, no? So using int.leave which isnt a method the object has if not defined, isnt correct.

[patent wagon]

what should i be doing?

[primal token]

^

[patent wagon]

can u write the expamle

like is it just guild.leave()

[spring summit]

yes

[patent wagon]

tysm

it worked c:

[spring summit]

[indigo pilot]

[2022-11-08 19:14:19] [ERROR   ] discord.ui.view: Ignoring exception in view <Commissions_Question01_Department timeout=None children=1> for item <Select placeholder='Select a department.' min_values=1 max_values=1 options=[<SelectOption label='Development' value='COM_DEP_1' description='MC Plugins, Discord Bots, Web Development' emoji=<PartialEmoji animated=False name='⚙️' id=None> default=False>, <SelectOption label='Minecraft Building' value='COM_DEP_2' description='Builder' emoji=<PartialEmoji animated=False name='🏦' id=None> default=False>, <SelectOption label='Design' value='COM_DEP_3' description='GFX, Web Design, Illustration, Vector Artist, 3D Artist, MC Texture Pack Designer' emoji=<PartialEmoji animated=False name='🎨' id=None> default=False>, <SelectOption label='Writing' value='COM_DEP_4' description='Writer' emoji=<PartialEmoji animated=False name='📃' id=None> default=False>, <SelectOption label='Video & Audio' value='COM_DEP_5' description='Voiceover, Video Editor, Trailers' emoji=<PartialEmoji animated=False name='🎙️' id=None> default=False>, <SelectOption label='Setups' value='COM_DEP_6' description='Setup Specialist, Server Administrator, Discord Setup Specialist' emoji=<PartialEmoji animated=False name='🪚' id=None> default=False>, <SelectOption label='Close' value='COM_DEP_CLOSE' description='Close your ticket.' emoji=<PartialEmoji animated=False name='❌' id=None> default=False>] disabled=False>
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\kaelm\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\discord\ui\view.py", line 425, in _scheduled_task
    await item.callback(interaction)
  File "C:\Users\kaelm\PycharmProjects\Main-bot-recreation\cogs\ticket\master.py", line 210, in select
    if option.value == "COM_DEP_1":
AttributeError: 'Select' object has no attribute 'value'```
https://i.leaked-your.info/dhZV99Nj

what is it again

i forget

i thought it was values[0] but that dosnt work so

[sick birch]

it's values not value

[indigo pilot]

pycharm is being homosexual then, said value was right but not values lul

thanks

one more question

is there something to mark a interaction as responded too?

so it dosnt say interaction failed

[sick birch]

!d discord.InteractionResponse.defer

[unkempt canyon]

discord.InteractionResponse.defer

await defer(*, ephemeral=False, thinking=False)```
This function is a [*coroutine*](https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio-task.html#coroutine).

Defers the interaction response.

This is typically used when the interaction is acknowledged and a secondary action will be done later.

This is only supported with the following interaction types...

[indigo pilot]

quick question again abou tthat, since im not setting it to a var how do i access the value of what was answered?

just realised that haha

sorry

[hushed galleon]

you use the value attribute of the text input

[indigo pilot]

wdym?

[hushed galleon]

!d discord.ui.TextInput.value

[unkempt canyon]

discord.ui.TextInput.value

property value```
The value of the text input.

[hushed galleon]

i.e. py class MyModal(discord.ui.Modal): my_input = discord.ui.TextInput(...) async def on_submit(self, interaction): answer = self.my_input.value

[indigo pilot]

yeah but its not being set to a var

https://femboi.best/E39CCixC

[hushed galleon]

you have to store the text input somewhere

put it in a list or a dictionary or something

[indigo pilot]

mm

[indigo pilot]

wdym by this?

its inside my innit so

how would putting them in a list or dict do anything

or

[hushed galleon]

so you're able to get the answers to each input

[indigo pilot]

how do i store them tho? since im using self.additem

questionone = self.add_item()
?

[hushed galleon]

construct the text inputs beforehand, then use add_item() afterwards

e.g. ```py
self.inputs = [
discord.ui.TextInput(...),
...
]
for text_input in self.inputs:
self.add_item(text_input)

and in on_submit():

answers: list[str] = [text_input.value for text_input in self.inputs]```

[indigo pilot]

self.inputs = [
discord.ui.TextInput(...),
...
]
for text_input in self.inputs:
self.add_item(text_input)

inside my innit still?

[hushed galleon]

yes

[indigo pilot]

oo oke! thanks

then to access it, answers[0].value im guessing?..

[hushed galleon]

er no, the answers was showing how you'd turn that list of text inputs into a list of strings

if you dont care about that you can write self.inputs[0].value

[indigo pilot]

ahh oke

[slate swan]

is there any way to run a command when my bot goes offline?

[sonic plover]

hello! i'm trying to set up a bot but i can't install discord.py using pip. Anyone having the same issue?

ERROR: Failed building wheel for yarl
Failed to build multidict yarl
ERROR: Could not build wheels for multidict, yarl, which is required to install pyproject.toml-based projects

idk if it's something really simple or a huge problem, because i started coding in python and in general recently, so i still don't know a lot. i'm working on the bot as a way to learn the language

[slate swan]

does anyone know how to fix this?

[full ether]

!intents

[unkempt canyon]

Using intents in discord.py

Intents are a feature of Discord that tells the gateway exactly which events to send your bot. By default discord.py has all intents enabled except for Members, Message Content, and Presences. These are needed for features such as on_member events, to get access to message content, and to get members' statuses.

To enable one of these intents, you need to first go to the Discord developer portal, then to the bot page of your bot's application. Scroll down to the Privileged Gateway Intents section, then enable the intents that you need.

Next, in your bot you need to set the intents you want to connect with in the bot's constructor using the intents keyword argument, like this:

from discord import Intents
from discord.ext import commands

intents = Intents.default()
intents.members = True

bot = commands.Bot(command_prefix="!", intents=intents)

For more info about using intents, see the discord.py docs on intents, and for general information about them, see the Discord developer documentation on intents.

[slate swan]

thank you

[versed comet]

help me pls

Please, can someone help me? i'm trying to initialize my python bot and it's giving this error, it didn't give this error before

it's giving this error when booting

in that folder

[slate swan]

.

How do I do this

aint no way

[slate swan]

like where are the docs for it

you type the answer to the questions dawg

WHAT DOCS 😭

fill out the info

[slate swan]

bruh the discord api docs to use the forms feature

[hushed galleon]

dunno if you figured it out yet, but python 3.11 was released only two weeks ago so not all libraries have uploaded prebuilt wheels for it

you can either downgrade to 3.10 (the simple choice), or download the necessary build tools for pip to manually compile those wheels, which is sort of explained somewhere above your error message

[hushed galleon]

those are known as modals, you'll find the related documentation in the "Message Components" and "Receiving and Responding" section of the docs
https://discord.com/developers/docs/interactions/message-components#text-inputs

[slate swan]

Thank you, which library should I use for this?

I believe discord.py does not support this correct?

[hushed galleon]

discord.py supports all forms of interactions* in the latest release, 2.0
*barring the bleeding edge stuff, in particular role/user/mentionable select menus

[slate swan]

what do you mean by "*barring the bleeding edge stuff"

[hushed galleon]

as in the particular feature i described came out very recently (about one month ago), and 2.0 came out before then

its just a sidenote, modals are supported

you can see an example of how they're used here
https://github.com/Rapptz/discord.py/blob/master/examples/modals/basic.py
and the related documentation:
https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/interactions/api.html#modal

[hushed galleon]

it seems there's something wrong with your dotenv package, perhaps related to a package conflict, though i dont understand why a package-lock.json file for npm is there
id ask about it in a help channel and also paste the output of pip list in your terminal (#❓｜how-to-get-help)

[slate swan]

who wants to make a bot with me?

[sick birch]

aw man

i think we were discussing this a few days ago

not sure if that was you but someone sent an image of a select menu with roles and users

[hushed galleon]

yup that was me

[versed comet]

Thanks 😊 🙏

[sick birch]

ahaha my bad, my memory is not all that great

[hushed galleon]

i think its out on master branch tho

this pr https://github.com/Rapptz/discord.py/pull/9013

[shrewd apex]

previously select menus were not visible on mobile client does it work now?

[hushed galleon]

when did that happen? i remember using them on iOS and android a while ago

[shrewd apex]

about a month or two when i was testing modals showed on my pc not mobile

[hushed galleon]

ah i think i remember that too, it was a weird experience

the api straight up blocks selects in modals now (i tested it a minute ago)

[shrewd apex]

ic thanks for the info❤️

[ionic garden]

how would i have an argument

be a list of users

[shrewd apex]

!d discord.ext.commands.Greedy

[unkempt canyon]

discord.ext.commands.Greedy

class discord.ext.commands.Greedy```
A special converter that greedily consumes arguments until it can’t. As a consequence of this behaviour, most input errors are silently discarded, since it is used as an indicator of when to stop parsing.

When a parser error is met the greedy converter stops converting, undoes the internal string parsing routine, and continues parsing regularly.

For example, in the following code:

```py
@commands.command()
async def test(ctx, numbers: Greedy[int], reason: str):
    await ctx.send("numbers: {}, reason: {}".format(numbers, reason))
```  An invocation of `[p]test 1 2 3 4 5 6 hello` would pass `numbers` with `[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]` and `reason` with `hello`...

[ionic garden]

wb slash commands

[ionic garden]

ok yeah it works the same for slash command

[glossy shore]

Hello, I'm looking for ways to make my own discord.py custom events

@bot.event
async def on_my_event(param1,param2,*etc):
  pass

I came across this stack overflow post
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/64810905/how-do-i-emit-custom-discord-py-events

can any one please explain how Bot.dispatch works ?

I don't see it in the docs for discord.py

[torn sail]

!d discord.Client.dispatch

[unkempt canyon]

I don't think so.

No documentation found for the requested symbol.

[torn sail]

Oh oops

[torn sail]

It’s Bot.dispatch("event_name", events_arg1, event_arg2, …)

The event name should not have on_

[glossy shore]

is it async ?

[torn sail]

Nope

[ionic garden]

so apparently discord has select menus and stuff

where you can choose multiple
how would i do this? the closest is discord.ui.Select, and it doesn't exactly offer multiple select choices

[naive briar]

What do you mean?

[glossy shore]

@torn sail
just curious
what library does discord.py use to handle event-dispatching ?,

[glad cradle]

itself

[slate swan]

Yes

How so u do that

[naive briar]

!d discord.ui.Select - Set the max_values to more than 1

[unkempt canyon]

discord.ui.Select

class discord.ui.Select(*, custom_id=..., placeholder=None, min_values=1, max_values=1, options=..., disabled=False, row=None)```
Represents a UI select menu with a list of custom options. This is represented to the user as a dropdown menu.

New in version 2.0.

[slate swan]

Thankss

[golden hinge]

!d discord.utils.utcnow

[unkempt canyon]

discord.utils.utcnow

discord.utils.utcnow()```
A helper function to return an aware UTC datetime representing the current time.

This should be preferred to [`datetime.datetime.utcnow()`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#datetime.datetime.utcnow "(in Python v3.11)") since it is an aware datetime, compared to the naive datetime in the standard library.

New in version 2.0.

[golden hinge]

Hello, I'm looking to create a command to display the time dynamically based on the customer's location, normally it's possible but I don't know how to go about it 😅

[upbeat gust]

!d discord.utils.format_dt

[unkempt canyon]

discord.utils.format\_dt

discord.utils.format_dt(dt, /, style=None)```
A helper function to format a [`datetime.datetime`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#datetime.datetime "(in Python v3.11)") for presentation within Discord.

This allows for a locale-independent way of presenting data using Discord specific Markdown...

[upbeat gust]

this can help do it for you

[slate swan]

{'cogs.modmail': ExtensionFailed("Extension 'cogs.modmail' raised an error: ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'configuration'")}
Loaded: cogs.modmail

import discord
from discord.ext import commands

from configurations.configuration import config
from configurations.messages import res_msg
from utilities.functions import get_embed, confirmation

Why?

[golden hinge]

Yes it doesn't really help me but hey I'll try like that

[slate swan]

if I’m not mistaking just doing using datetime.datetime.utcnow() will display the time based on their time zone.

[placid skiff]

nope, this will return the time based on the local machine, aka the current time where the bot or the program is executed

[slate swan]

that's now, not utcnow

!d datetime.datetime.utcnow it returns the utc time

[unkempt canyon]

datetime.datetime.utcnow

classmethod datetime.utcnow()```
Return the current UTC date and time, with [`tzinfo`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#datetime.datetime.tzinfo "datetime.datetime.tzinfo") `None`.

This is like [`now()`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#datetime.datetime.now "datetime.datetime.now"), but returns the current UTC date and time, as a naive [`datetime`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#datetime.datetime "datetime.datetime") object. An aware current UTC datetime can be obtained by calling `datetime.now(timezone.utc)`. See also [`now()`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#datetime.datetime.now "datetime.datetime.now").

Warning

Because naive `datetime` objects are treated by many `datetime` methods as local times, it is preferred to use aware datetimes to represent times in UTC. As such, the recommended way to create an object representing the current time in UTC is by calling `datetime.now(timezone.utc)`.

[slate swan]

shoulda specified, if u do it in the time stamp of an embed it’ll show correct time for that used

[slate swan]

yeee this.

[vestal pine]

hello so I am running a discord bot and hosting it over replit with an hosting file or actually keep_alive but I am having the problem in the image down there that its giving me the wrong time. I hope someone had this before and can help me with it

this error is also causing the bot not to get online

[loud junco]

Should I use image as the Monopoly board like myuu

[loud junco]

This is not an error

This thing means ur uptimerobot is working :/

[vestal pine]

yes, but the time is wrong

[loud junco]

Check ur token maybe?

[vestal pine]

I reseted and tried it